Week in Review
9/6/25
Urgent Health Update: Consequences of war on Gaza, West Bank/East Jerusalem - August 30, 2025
Please read and circulate widely, use this info for your political organizing! The people of Gaza are being starved, injured, and killed at the hands of our weaponry and surveillance. This is not a time for complacency.
Come to the next JVP HAC webinar 9/7 with simultaneous Spanish interpretation.
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
Kennedy is endangering everyone’s health. Bernie Sanders rightly calls for Kennedy’s resignation.
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
The move will stop, at least temporarily, travel for medical treatment, attending university, visiting relatives or conducting business.
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
Top Palestinian rights group presents damning evidence of genocide in Gaza
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights launches 204-page report documenting four acts of genocide allegedly carried out by Israel in Gaza: The genocide in Gaza is unfolding live, broadcast for the world to see, a scene that shames humanity, supported by the US and numerous Western countries that arm Israel with weapons, military equipment, financial assistance, and unwavering political support, making them partners in genocide. The lack of accountability and the impunity enjoyed by Israel have emboldened its blatant disregard for international law. The genocide in Gaza is the bitter harvest and culmination of decades of Western support for Israel’s crimes and impunity. It is long overdue for the international community to step up, take responsibility, and put an end to this brazen violation of international law by the occupying state.
246 Journalists and Media Workers Martyred During the Israeli Genocidal War
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) stated: since October 2023, 246 journalists have been killed (as have 800+ of their family members), 520 injured, and 39 arrested (22 remain in detention). Israeli airstrikes and tank assaults have destroyed 115 media outlets.
Remarks by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on famine in Gaza
on Gaza: Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, stated: “It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food, in a fertile land. It is a famine that hits the most vulnerable first. Each with a name, each with a story. That strips people of dignity before it strips them of life. That forces people to risk their lives to seek food. It is a famine that we repeatedly warned of. But that the international media has not been allowed in to cover. To bear witness. … It is a famine on all of our watch. … It is a predictable and a preventable famine.”
Gaza Famine a Catastrophe for Mothers and Infants
UNFPA noted that famine is “a death sentence for pregnant and breastfeeding women and their newborn, “For mothers in Gaza, it means being forced to give birth while malnourished, exhausted and at heightened risk of death. It means their babies are born too small, too weak or too early to survive. It means mothers unable to breastfeed because they, too, are starving. And it forces mothers to make the impossible choice between which of their children to feed, and which must be left to perish.
RFK Jr.’s Victory Lap
It’s become clear that Kennedy has prevailed. In June, he fired all the members of the CDC’s vaccine-advisory committee and replaced them with a cast that includes contrarians, anti-vaccine activists, and conspiracy theorists. Last week, Kennedy pushed out the CDC’s director after less than a month on the job, and three senior leaders, including the chief medical officer, resigned in protest. Today, reports emerged that Kennedy wishes to pull the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines from the U.S. market, and that he plans to install more fringe figures on the vaccine committee ahead of its meeting on September 18.
He is endangering the health of everyone in the US!
The Voice of Hind Rajab review: Devastating film will break you
Playing in competition at Venice Film Festival, this is a feature film ripped from the headlines, as they say, blending real-life audio and some stellar performances from Ben Hania’s cast. The film is a 90-minute ordeal, one that truly lays bare the horrors of the conflict in Gaza.
Set in January 2024, it takes place entirely in a Red Crescent emergency call centre, manned by frazzled volunteers close to understandable meltdown.